Transform Agricultural Fibre into High-Value Products & Commercial Opportunities

InnoTech Alberta’s Decortication Fibre Processing Plant helps organizations convert industrial hemp, flax, and other fibre crops into usable materials for manufacturing, construction, agriculture, and consumer products.

Through pilot-scale processing, material preparation, and product development support, we help clients evaluate feedstocks, test new applications, and generate the materials and data needed to support commercialization and investment decisions.

What This Facility Enables

This Decortication Fibre Processing Plant bridges the gap between laboratory concepts and commercial fibre-processing operations.

The types of clients using this facility include:

  • Hemp and flax processors
  • Material and product developers
  • Bio-composite manufacturers
  • Construction and building product companies
  • Investors evaluating fibre-processing opportunities

These clients use this facility to:

  • Develop new fibre-based products
  • Evaluate hemp and flax feedstocks
  • Validate fibre-processing technologies
  • Produce material for product testing and market development
  • Generate data for scale-up and investment decisions
  • Develop value-added applications for agricultural crops
  • Reduce technical risk before commercial deployment
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Pilot-Scale Processing & Product Development

Pilot-Scale Processing & Product Development

The Advantage of Our Plant

The Advantage of Our Plant

Pilot-Scale Processing & Product Development

Unlike commercial facilities that focus on high-volume production, our plant allows clients to evaluate processes, optimize material characteristics, and produce quantities suitable for testing and product development.

The facility supports:

  • Fibre separation and refinement
  • Feedstock evaluation
  • Material quality optimization
  • Product development
  • Process validation
  • Commercialization support

Our team can adjust fibre characteristics, including length, cleanliness, and hurd specifications, to meet project requirements and support specific end-use applications. 

The Advantage of Our Plant

One of the biggest challenges in the fibre sector is demonstrating that a feedstock, product, or process can work consistently before significant commercial investments are made. The Plant can process industrial hemp or flax straw into bast fibre and hurd at a rate of 1 tonne per hour. The un-retted straw can be cleaned to greater than 90% purity.

Our pilot-scale facility can help organizations:

  • Evaluate technical feasibility
  • Assess product performance
  • Produce materials for customer testing
  • Reduce commercialization risk
  • Support business case development
  • Accelerate market adoption

By producing representative fibre streams under realistic processing conditions, clients gain the confidence and evidence needed to move toward commercial production.

For more information

Decortication Fibre Processing Plant

Hwy 16A & 75 Street
Vegreville, Alberta
T9C 1T4

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